761908 - -silent command line option fails to bring up firefox on windows xp sp3

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.53 Safari/536.5

Steps to reproduce:

run "firefox.exe -silent" from the command line


Actual results:

process immediately dies


Expected results:

firefox launched without any 'default windows' as described here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options#-silent


This does work for FF12

Comment 1

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

this bug is invalid as is... the real issue was with how selenium was trying to check for a lock file in the profile that used to get cleaned up. Potentially another bug could be opened, but I don't think we care.